Part One Old English Literature I.Histiorical Background II.The Development of the English Language III.Literary Features IV.Representative Writers and Works V.Beowulf and the Heroic Epic Tradition Part Two Middle English Literature I.Historical Background II.Literary Features III.Romance and Sir Gawain IV.Popular Ballad V.Medieval Drama VI.William Langland and Piers Plowman VII.Geoffrey Chaucer VIII.Reading The Canterbury Tales Part There Literature of Renaissance and Reformation I.Historical Background II.Literary Features III.Renaissance Poetry Part Four Literature of Revolution and Restoration Part Five The Eighteenth Century Literature Part Six The Literature of the Romantic Period Part Seven Victorian Literature Part Eight The Twentieth Century Literature Part Nine English Literature sINCE 1945 Selected Bibliography
